Howdy. I’ve been spending the past month or so automating a lot of repeatable tasks, none of which have been groundbreaking. Yet, I don’t want to leave you hanging, so I thought I’d share a quick PowerShell script I created to initiate a deployed Task Sequence on a client machine. It is a nice tool […]

Summary Microsoft’s official documentation on managing SCOM’s service accounts lacks any instructions on updating the Data Warehouse Write account credentials. This post contains detailed instructions on how to perform that operation. Introduction Recently at a client, I had need of changing the credentials used by SCOM’s array of service accounts. Unbeknownst to […]

I recently had an engagement where a standard O365 redirect to on-premise ADFS 3.0 authentication was required. I ran into an odd configuration issue that redirected users to a blank Microsoft online login page. I thought at first the authentication on premise was not working and the redirect was due to a bad token/response from […]

Windows 10: Azure AD Join with Intune Enrollment Hello again! I recently posted about a few cool, and not so cool features of Windows 10 Azure AD Join. One of the cools was the ability to automatically enroll a device in Intune upon joining Azure AD. At the time of that post this feature was […]

Hello all, more powershell fun. How often are you trouble shooting an application install or “insert error here” and the end user says, “Yes I rebooted!!!”. Not that we don’t trust the end user, but it helps to be able to verify that the computer was rebooted. Here is a small script I use to determine […]

I recently had the opportunity to work with Windows 8.1 Embedded (Industry Pro) for the first time in my career. The project was to create a custom image that could be managed by SCCM 2012 R2, versus the OEM image configured to use the manufacturers management tools. As I do with all my build and […]